“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
“Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 293
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